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Tarleton, in Misalliance The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with their Prefaces, vol. 4, ed. Dan H. Laurence (1972)Alfred Doolittle, in Pygmalion a member of the Caravan of the Curious, in The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God (1932)a naturalist, in The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God (1932)Anderson, in The Devil's Disciple The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with their Prefaces, vol. 2, ed. Dan H. Laurence (1971)

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If marriages were made by putting all the men's names into one sack and the women's names into another, and having them taken out by a blindfolded child like lottery numbers, there would be just as high a percentage of happy marriages as we have here in England.... If you can tell me of any trustworthy method of selecting a wife, I shall be happy to make use of it.

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. (First produced 1910). Joey Percival, in Misalliance, The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with their Prefaces, vol. 4, ed. Dan H. Laurence (1972).

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